Billy Conn
64–11 · 60 recorded bouts · 1934–1948
Billy Conn finished 23% of 64 wins inside the distance — the 3rd percentile for heavyweight boxing, where the median is 68%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 73″ (185.4 cm) | |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing competed at 2: light heavyweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Peak era | 1940s | |
| Country | United States |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Billy Conn, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
Boxing record
64–11
76 bouts on record
Finish rate
23%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 3rd percentile
The career, bout by bout
60 recorded bouts from 1934 to 1948. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
15y
1934–1948
Longest unbeaten run
15
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1936
12 bouts
Recorded bouts
60
59 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | W | Jackie Lyons | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1948 | W | Mike O'Dowd | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1946 | L | Joe Louis | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1942 | W | Tony Zale | Decision | 12 |
| 1942 | W | Jay D Turner | Decision | 10 |
| 1942 | W | Henry Cooper | Decision | 12 |
| 1941 | L | Joe Louis | KO/TKO | 13 |
| 1941 | W | Buddy Knox | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1941 | W | Gunnar Bärlund | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1941 | W | Danny Hassett | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1941 | W | Ira Hughes | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1940 | W | Lee Savold | Decision | 10 |
| 1940 | W | Al McCoy | Decision | 10 |
| 1940 | W | Bob Pastor | KO/TKO | 13 |
| 1940 | W | Gus Lesnevich | Decision | 15 |
| 1940 | W | Henry Cooper | Decision | 12 |
| 1939 | W | Gus Lesnevich | Decision | 15 |
| 1939 | W | Melio Bettina | Decision | 15 |
| 1939 | W | Gus Dorazio | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1939 | W | Solly Krieger | Decision | 12 |
| 1939 | W | Fred Apostoli | Decision | 15 |
| 1938 | W | Solly Krieger | Decision | 12 |
| 1938 | W | Honeyboy Jones | Decision | 10 |
| 1938 | W | Ray Actis | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1938 | L | Teddy Yarosz | Decision | 12 |
| 1938 | W | Eric Seelig | Decision | 10 |
| 1938 | W | Domenico Ceccarelli | Decision | 10 |
| 1937 | L | Solly Krieger | Decision | 12 |
| 1937 | W | Young Corbett III | Decision | 10 |
| 1937 | W | Teddy Yarosz | Decision | 15 |
| 1937 | W | Ralph Chong | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1937 | W | Oscar Rankins | Decision | 10 |
| 1937 | W | Vince Dundee | Decision | 10 |
| 1937 | W | Eddie Babe Risko | Decision | 10 |
| 1936 | W | Fritzie Zivic | Decision | 10 |
| 1936 | W | Jimmy Brown | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1936 | W | Ralph Chong | Decision | 8 |
| 1936 | W | Charley Weise | Decision | 10 |
| 1936 | W | Roscoe Manning | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1936 | W | Honeyboy Jones | Decision | 10 |
| 1936 | W | Teddy Movan | Decision | 8 |
| 1936 | W | General Burrows | Decision | 8 |
| 1936 | W | Dick Ambrose | Decision | 6 |
| 1936 | W | Steve Nickleash | Decision | 6 |
| 1936 | W | Louis Cook | Decision | 8 |
| 1936 | W | Johnny Yurcini | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1935 | W | Steve Walters | Decision | 6 |
| 1935 | D | Teddy Movan | Decision | 6 |
| 1935 | W | Johnny Yurcini | Decision | 6 |
| 1935 | W | George Liggins | Decision | 4 |
| 1935 | W | Ray Eberle | Decision | 5 |
| 1935 | L | Ralph Gizzy | Decision | 6 |
| 1935 | W | George Schlie | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1935 | W | Stanley Nagy | Decision | 4 |
| 1935 | W | Johnny Birek | Decision | 6 |
| 1934 | L | Pete Leone | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1934 | W | Paddy Gray | Decision | 4 |
| 1934 | W | Bob Dorman | Decision | 6 |
| 1934 | W | Johnny Lewis | KO/TKO | 3 |
| — | ? | Opponent | — | — |
22 of these opponents have their own page here.
How this is worked out
- Measurements and records are read from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the fight list is parsed from the article's own results table.
- Reach advantage is (reach − height) ÷ height as a percentage, so fighters of different sizes compare directly.
- Percentiles rank this fighter among the 587 heavyweight boxing fighters in the dataset — chosen because it is the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
Reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100
Source: Billy Conn on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-07. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.